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Saturday, April 26, 2014

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April 14, 2014

This week was good, and we saw miracles, but really nothing
extraordinary happened. One thing was just that we had been feeling we needed
to go to arc de triumf, but since that is the boundary of our area we have been
putting it off, and this week we finally went and we found a menos activo who
was really happy to see us, so that was a small but simple miracle. Our numbers this week are kind of low unfortunately, but not because we weren't
trying. Our visits just keep failing on
us!! Satan does a really good job of
making people forget they have appointments with us. Another part of it too probably was that I had
to put my foot down and make Elder West sign up for his classes, because up
until Wednesday he still hadn't. That took a lot of time unfortunately, but
Oscar was with us (he is a member who doesn't have a job so he is always with
us, and if we don't call him to go on visits he gets mad. He literally is with a companionship at least
once a day) and so I was able to help him try and find his line of authority,
and figure out how to use lds.org, so it was a good use of time, and then later
that day we had a couple really good member present lessons with him helping
us.

This week was also really difficult, because we had kind of a
spiritual hiccup, where for my part at least, it was tough to feel the Spirit
for a day or so, due to an argument we had with the other elders in our piso
over a small little thing. It's all
better now, but it was super hard to break through. But, fortunately I have an amazing companion,
who holds the Priesthood and was able to give me a blessing. I really needed it, and for him to have been
there was great. He is what I imagine
having a brother is like. Someone that
can annoy you to no end, but as soon as anybody says anything against them,
they are going down. That's the kind of
relationship we have. Also, being able
to fast helped out a ton. I love fast Sunday.